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G. A. LE FEVRE AND W, B. HUTCHINSON.

CONTAINER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 4. 1918.

1,320,397. I Patented Nov. 4, 1919.

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GEORGE A, LE FEVRE, or RICHMOND HILL, nEw YonK, an!) WARREN B. rrnrcnnvson,

or NEWARK, nEw-JEasEY,

ASSIGNORS, BY DIRECT AND lvIESN E ASSIGNMENTS, TO

IPAXFLAT BARREL CRATE CCRlPORAT-ION, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 4, 1919.

Applicationfiled November 4, 1918. Serial No. 260,983.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, GEORGE A. LE FEvRE, a' citizen of the United States, and a resident of Richmond Hill, Queens county, New York, and WARRENBi HUT'CHINSON, a citizen of the United. States,and .a resident of Newark, county of Esseigand Stateof New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Containers,of-which the fol-r lowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

Our invention relates to improvements in ventilated containers, that is containers in which the stavesor' slats are spaced apart so as to leave air spaces between them. The

objects of our invention are to make a simple and convenient form of container of this character which can be very'cheaply made, very easily set up, and in which the hoops are constructed to space the staves or slats and hold them with sufficient rigidity and yet be sufficiently'flexible to permit the container to be easily set up when desired. A

special object of the invention is to form the'container with clips struck up from the hoops, in which a pair of clips shall embrace each. stave andbe doubled over and preferably iembedded in the stave so that the stave and hoop are permanently secured and in such a way that the holding clips are' not likely to breakorwork loose. Our invention also lendsitself to the formation of crates or containers either .in cylindrical, rectangular, or other forms, the form of the crate depending on the shape of the head.

Our invention is also intended to produce a simple and cheap form ofhoop in which light material can be made sufficiently strong. All to the end of producing a cheap, convenient, and easily knocked-down or set up container.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a container in barrel form embodying our invention.

Fig. 2 is a plan of the head preferably used.

Fig. 3 is a detail section showing the connection between the head and staves.

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Fig. 4 is a plan viewof another form of i .curely held in place. Fig. 5 is a detail section showlng the con-;

Fig. 8 is a cross section'through the hoop;

before the holding clips have been clenched to the staves. 3

Fig. 9 is a detail showing the ends of the hoops spaced prior to fastening them together. l I

Fig.10 shows the hoop ends fastened. i

Fig. 11 shows the container in rectangular form, and p Fig. 12 is a longitudinal section of a crate showing our improvements.

We use straight staves 10 which are provlded preferably near the ends with a croze 11 adapted to receive the edges of the head preferably a thin sheet metal head stiffened by surface corrugations l3 and preferably provided with seat portions at the edge for the several staves, and the flange 14: which fits the croze of the staves is broken at intervals as shown at 15 so that these promotions fit between the staves and form lateral support, and also form the seats between them for the staves.

If desired a head 16 or other form of wooden head can be. substituted for that shown. The hoops 17 are made of thin sheet metal, and are tudinally 18 in Fig.

At intervals clips 19 are struck up from the middle portions of the hoops, and these have preferably though not'necessarily, pointed ends 20. The staves 10 fit between the pairs of clips as shownclearly in Figs. 6 and 7, and the clips are clenched over upon the staves and the points 20 preferably embedded in the wood, as shown clearly in the This arrangement includes a hoop which is very easy to make by machinery, and the clips can be conveniently clenched by machinery, and furthermore by having the staves grasped .on opposite sides by the hoops in the manner shown, they are prevented from wabbling and are very se- It will be seen that with a sufiicient umber of staves to form the container, the staves and hoops can be laid out flat, and when the container is to be made the staves and hoops are bent to the desired shape and the heads fitted in place. 7

The ends .o fthe hoops can be fastened in any convenient manner. We have shown a very simple form of fastener in which the overlapping end portions are notched on the .edges as shown at 21, and they can then be secured by a tie wire 22 or the like.

If the container is to be in rectangular shape, a head 16 of rectangular shape isin sorted in the croze of the staves, and the head as in the cylindrical form, can be either of wood or metal, but we prefer to have it of metal as shown in Fig. 2. This is an advantage because the flange 14: of the head fits the croze nicely, and'the head is not likely to be displaced when the container is secured at one end only, or while it is being filled. Furthermore this form of construction is desirable because the projections or bosses 15 serve to brace the stares at the ends. This form of head also lends itself to the easy setting up of a knockdown structure of'this kind, as the staves fit so nicely between the several bosses, that the connected staves in belt form can be r lled up around the heads and will drop nicely into place on their respective seats.-

This makes it also very easy to form a crate With a middle partition as in Fig. 12, in which case the staves are provided with a middle croze, and one of the heads or partitions is inserted in the croze with the projections 15 between the. staves as above noted. a v

The structure which we have described including the flat hoops with the integral clips struck up thereon adapted to be doubled over opposite edges of the staves,

easily, the clips struck up thereon, the clips doubled over u oon the staves, and the structure generally nished better than ordmary knock-down structures. This wlll be apparof the hoops -17--ent upon reference to our application for crate or barrel machines, Serial No; 260,982, filed November 4, 1918.

We claim 1. A knock-down barrel or crate comprising a series of stavesspaced apart, iflat hoops connecting the staves on their outer sides, said hoops having integral clips which embrace ea-ch stave from opposite edges and are folded over upon it, said hoops having also longitudinal corrugations, and suitable heads for the crate or barrel. 7

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2. In a knockdown .cnate .or

body portion comprising a series of stares spaced apart, fiat flexible hoops connecting the staves on their outer sides, clips fast upon the hoops and arranged in pairs so that each pair of clips shall embrace the stave from opposite edges,. and means for fastening the hoop ends together.

3. A lmockedo'wn crate or barrel comprising a series of staves spaced aoart and connecting by flat flexible hoops hereby forming a belt-like structure, the staves each having a croze therein, and-head or partition members of sheet metal each having an upturned flange to fit in the .croze of the stave, and outwardlyextending projections to fit between the staves' GEORGE A. LE FEVRE.

WARREN B. HUT-CHINSON.

Witnesses I M. G. O DoNNE LL,

VILLIAM L. T CKER,

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Washington, I). Q. 

